Almost 30 years after the movie’s release, I still have no clue what “Toys” was about. The film was a discombobulating, surrealist mess. None of this, apparently, kept it from vying for Oscar gold, with the movie securing a pair of nominations — Art Direction and Costume Design. It lost both categories, to movies that better married their arty pretensions and consumerist leanings (“Howard’s End” and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” respectively).
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